Are you doing hours of cardio every day, but still your flabby tummy isn't seeing any results. Well when you are out jogging for an hour at a time you start to burn calories from fat, but as soon as you stop your body will start to store new fat reserves for the next exercise, and that is exactly what we do not want to happen.

When you are doing crunches you are only isolating the outer abdominal muscles, this doesn't pull the gut in but rather pushes the muscles outward. This is great if you want a visible abdomen, but it is not so good for having a flat tummy.

You are probably a bit confused, a little frustrated and maybe you feel hurt. I know when I heard this I felt like everything I had been taught my whole life was a lie, well it is alright, things are still ok.

There are things you can do to flatten that stomach, so that spring breakers can start doing belly shots from your navel again. The first thing you are going to want to do is start burning that fat.

This is easily done and it takes much less time than you were spending on your jog or bike ride. It is called HIIT (high intensity interval training).

This is just two minutes max with thirty seconds rest. You can do it swimming, running or biking.

Just run as hard as you can for two minutes and then rest for thirty seconds, try to do this about four times. What this does is it releases hormones that will burn fat for up to 48 hours.

That is how you are going to burn that fat, and get that real low percentage of body fat. Still you may have a bit of a belly, don't worry that can be taken care of too, and you don't have to starve yourself.

What you have to do is core exercises that tone and tighten inner muscles. These are going to pull your stomach inward and make it real tight.

Yoga is a great way to do this but that isn't the only way either. You also have Pilates and a slew of home exercises that are easily performed in the comfort of your own living room.

If you want to start tightening your abdomen from home start doing full body exercises that focus on the torso. Exercises like the plank and the plank with leg lifts are the types of exercise you want to do.

Start in a pushup position and hold it. Eventually you should start to feel a bit of a burn in your midsection, hold the position through this burn.

This is the type of exercise that is going to create lean and mean core muscles. To make it more difficult place your legs on a block, or you could alternate lifting one of them.